There is a lane connecting these two turnpikes older than the turnpikes themselves.
On the western side is a deep valley, running northward, which is bounded on either side by turnpikes from Soissons, La Fere and Laon.
This grant and his many incessant efforts to establishturnpikes conferred on Levi Pease the title of the "Father of the Turnpike.
Until this time Irish immigration had been slight in this country, and in many small communities where the new turnpikes passed the first Irish immigrants were stared at as curiosities.
On all the turnpikes the bridges equalled the roads.
On other turnpikes throughout the country Irish laborers were employed to dig the earth and break the stone.
In 1787 the Grand Jury of Baltimore reported the state of the country roads as a public grievance, and the Frederick, Reisterstown, and York roads were laid out anew by the county as turnpikes with toll-gates.
Many other charters were soon granted, and the state was covered with a network of turnpikes which were in general thronged with vehicles and livestock, and were therefore vastly profitable.
Tolls were commuted on Massachusetts turnpikes before 1800, so that condition of railroad travel is a century old.
It is interesting to note that the trail of the Indians and the horse-track of these men skilled only in woodcraft were the ones followed in later years by trained engineers in laying out the turnpikes and railroads.
These two turnpikes cross Green river within eight miles of each other, but an army, once on the north side of the river, and in possession of both roads, could march with perfect ease in any direction.
Yet teeming as it is with every crop which the farmer wishes, one would think, in riding along the fine turnpikes which enter Nashville upon all sides, that a comparatively small proportion of the land is cultivated.
In my own immediate front, looking down from the Casino block-house, were the Nolensville and Franklin turnpikes with the Alabama Railroad, along which we had retreated.
The ordinary country roads were impassable, and even the turnpikes became nearly so.
The corporations thus formed had little difficulty in obtaining capital subscriptions, whether for the construction of turnpikes or bridges, or for the operation of ferries.
The construction of bridges and the operation of ferries were parts of this larger turnpike movement, and like the turnpikes themselves, they were usually disappointing to those who had invested with the hope of large dividends.
They there spekkady hosses never pay no turnpikes here in Cornwall.
They there sparky (speckled) hosses don't pay no turnpikes here.
He hoped that the increased price of the public lands, arising from the improved means of communication, would in turn furnish a large and steadily increasing fund for national turnpikes and canals.
While New York and Philadelphia were developing canals and turnpikes to reach the west, Baltimore was placed in an awkward position.
Nearer to the Ohio Valley than any other seaport, she had built turnpikes to connect with the national road, and thus shared with Philadelphia the western trade.
To Pennsylvania the control of the western market, always an important interest, had led in 1800 to the construction of a system of turnpikes to connect Philadelphia with Pittsburgh over the mountains, which developed a great wagon trade.
The state and the corporation were replacing the national government as the controlling power in internal improvements, and Adams's conception of a national system of turnpikes and canals had failed.
Green inquired at all the turnpikes and vehicles; the scent was cold at first, but warmer by degrees, and hot at Canterbury.
With the development of stage routes, came bridges, ferries, turnpikes and national roads.
These turnpikes presented a bustling appearance, with the dashing stage coaches, parties on horseback, the long trains of teamsters' huge wagons, and the many taverns that lined these thoroughfares.
When it is too dark to see any other object, one can still see the white turnpikes of France and Italy; and they are clean enough to eat from, without a table-cloth.
Surely the straight, smooth, pure white turnpikesare jack-planed and sandpapered every day.
Nowadays the roads are all highways, since the turnpikeshave been abolished, and their repair, outside the boroughs, is the business of the County Councils.
With the splendid turnpikes came the glorious coaching days.
It is interesting to note that the routes taken by those men, skilled only in humble woodcraft, were the same ones followed in later years by the engineers of the turnpikes and railroads.
For nearly a century more, travellers from Edinburgh to London met with no turnpikes until within about 110 miles of the metropolis.
The prejudices entertained against the turnpikes were so strong, that in some places the country people would not even use the improved roads after they were made.
In the basin below somnolent streets spread away and lose themselves in glistening turnpikes between bluegrass farms where velvet lawns and shaded woodlands surround old mansions that mirror the charm and flavor of rural England.
The metaled turnpikes would dwindle and end in clay roads.
Steamboats and steam-cars have supersededturnpikes and canals; individual enterprise has dispensed with national legislation.
But for the doctor one thing had been worked out to the end: that year by year he was to drive along turnpikes and lanes--alone.
Birney as he drove along turnpikes and lanes looked out of his buggy and saw him.
And now along the turnpikes the great loaded creaking wagons pass slowly to the towns, bearing the hemp to the factories, thence to be scattered over land and sea.
The roads of Kentucky, those long limestone turnpikes connecting the towns and villages with the farms--they were early made necessary by the hauling of the hemp.
Our course now lay through Maryland, and we performed endless marches and countermarches over turnpikes and through field and forest.
What is the earliest instance and origin of this word, and when did the system of turnpikes commence?
As the ownership of the wagons, ships, and canal-boats of a country is usually divided, ocean ports and points along the lines of turnpikes and canals enjoy competition between carriers.
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